"I can deal with the five hours of makeup but the costume itself? Once you put it on, you're sort of like rigid," Hounsou explained. "There was not a lot of moving around…I dreaded going into the costume. Once I was in the costume, I was in a bad mood."

For her role as Nebula, Karen Gillan not only shaved off her gorgeous ginger locks, but the Scottish beauty also had to sit through five hours every day while a team applied prosthetics and turned her skin an eerie blue. "It was amazing," Gillan told me earlier this year. "It was creepy and weirdly doll-like, child-like almost."